Just when you thought we were done with the Holiday surprises (Free Santa, Festive Level Pack, LBC1 winners, etc, etc) we have one more announcement up our sleeve…and it’s a dozy. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been biting our tongues, and finally we can reveal our latest offering (originally ‘somewhat’ announced at this years TGS) – Metal Gear Solid packs – Available 12/23 on the PlayStation Store.

Metal Gear Solid Premium Costume Pack
You’ve seen Solid Snake, but have you seen the rest of the cast? (well, ok…maybe you have… ) Meryl Silverburgh, Screaming Mantis & Raiden each have their own costumes from the MGS world. Get all 4 characters for the price of 3 at $5.99 on the PS Store, or pick your favorite and buy it individually for $1.99.

Metal Gear Solid Premium Level Pack
Now that you know about our Festive Level Pack, which fills your Pop-it tool with a ton of “Create” materials, objects and stickers, our Premium Level Packs introduce that and a whole lot more. So without further adeu…lets talk about what’s inside the MGS Level Pack (and this time we mean “Level” pack…)

The objects are especially cool, why you ask…well, in addition to these ‘create’ materials, our Premium Level Packs include new Story Levels and they’re filled these new objects. That’s because, Media Molecule teamed with Konami to create 5 new Story Levels and 1 new Challenge Level for you to enjoy.

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Now we couldn’t just build a level using the basic tools above, we need music, new sound effects, and new elements to provide a true MGS experience. So you’re getting these in the Level Pack, as well:

3 new background music tracks

1 new interactive music track

1 new Metal Gear Solid themed ‘sound object’

New Plasma Ball ‘danger element’

New Laser Sight ‘gadget’

New functioning Searchlight lamp – for those special ‘exclamation mark’ moments

Now, not only will you be able to run, jump, push, pull, swing, etc, etc in LBP, but now you’ll be able to splatter anything that comes between you and the end of any level. Once you equip the Paintinator, you can send sacksized paintballs flying by mashing on the R1 button and using the right stick to aim. Few things about flying paintballs, when Sackboys are hit with them, it feels like a very weak slap. You can also shoot ‘Brains’ from a safe distance and progress thru levels much easier. In addition to the Paintinator, we’re introducing a Paint Switch, so you can attach it to any object and set it to destruct after being splattered with enough paint. Here’s a video to show you the Metal Gear Solid Level Pack in action…

Add to all that, there are 12 new Trophies to unlock (and if you pay attention to the story at all, we’re not a big fan of Trophy Levels).

So now you see why we’ve been biting our tongue on this announcement. Tons of new gameplay, tons of new game-changing objects, and tons of create materials…all for just $5.99 (shesh…did that just sound like an infomercial?). We absolutely can’t wait to see what the community does with this pack and the new types of levels this will bring to the Share Planet.

And wait…there’s more…
So, here’s one of the coolest things about this pack…you guys know LBP is all about PLAY, CREATE & SHARE – well, you’ll be glad to know that this Level Pack holds true to that. For those who buy the Premium Level Pack, you get everything above (and hopefully a lot of fun in-between). If you don’t buy it, you’ll still be able to enjoy the MGS pack goodness. Here’s how:

Non-MGS Level Pack owners can PLAY the MGS Story Levels by joining a “host” who owns the pack and play the levels online together. Now you won’t be able to keep any objects, but you can have tons of fun just PLAYing.

MGS Level Pack owners will be able to CREATE levels with any of these items (including the Paintinator) and SHARE them online for everyone to play.

Again, we’re very excited to present this MGS Level Pack to you as a taste of how LBP can and will continue to evolve over time. With the support of our community, whether it’s creating new and awesome levels on the Share Planet or buying our Costumes and Level Packs, we’ll continue to provide more LBP goodness down the road in 2009.

So check back on the PS Store on 12/23 and treat yourself to a present this holiday season :)

The MGS expansion is a move in the right direction. I would like to see more of this type of enhancement. What about adding the rest of “Mother Natures” elements. You have fire covered but I think some sand, water, and wind would be useful. Boats that actually float, swimming sack persons, some SCUBA gear! Fans that blow wind and can be tweaked, and Sand for making traps (or mixed with water to make, well, mud of course). Sand could also be used to activate triggers (sand falls into bucket, weighs it down, causes it to pull down a lever, and activates a switch.. get it?) Im sure the LBP community would find many inventive ways to use these elements. Is this in the works or am I asking too much?

Another note on my previous post, Fans used to create wind could be tweaked and used to help a sack person scale a wall, or to give your entire level a windy effect. Water could be used to create rain. Mix them together and have one big storm of a level. Just some ideas that are popping in my head at the moment. I leave it to the rest of you bloggers to come up with other possibilities these elements could add. -Cheers!, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!

hey u guys should try my competitive level called paintball
my little big planet name is tristianlark and it has a free paintball gun prize that u can use un your level without even having to buy the pack! and please heart me and my level THANK YOU!!!!!!!

u go to the bottom one its like content or something where you see all the things u can buy and find it and push x the click act 1 and your ready to go
i already beat the entire original game + the mgs add on but now i need to find all the prizes so please if you have a chance help me find all the prizes
also please search tristianlark and try some of my levels and heart them and me
thanx

Thats really amazing that you included MGS4 in littlebigplanet im going to buy a 20$ psn card eventually but can u make some MGS4 things for free but besides that its really cool how yall did dat. and in the feautre i hope u do the same with other games to. srry for complaining